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Category: seal
Feast your eyes on this, squares...
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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.

Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
Category: seal
Feast your eyes on this, squares...
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Category: seal
A clip from Werner Herzog's "Encounters At The End Of The Earth."
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Category: seal
A young adult Antarctic fur seal was witnessed forcing itself upon an adult king penguin for upwards of 45 minutes.
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Category: seal
A pod of Orcas surrounds a seal on an ice sheet and creates waves to try and knock it off. This reminds me of when you buy a candy bar and it gets stuck by the wrapper and you have...
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Category: nintendo
Ever wonder where sea creatures have been or where they're headed? Thanks to marvelous modern technology and an ambitious team of prestigious scientific organizations, now you can watch in almost real-time! Since 2002, Tagging of Pacific Pelagic (TOPPS) research project...
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Category: pet
Per Gizmodo's Jack Ventura, the Japanese government has spent $12,000,000 over the past two years developing "silver technology." For those of you, like every single person reading this, unfamiliar with this term, apparently it refers to robots designed to help...
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Category: arctic
In a sad follow up to the story posted this morning, Hope, the bearded seal who swam all the way from the Arctic to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, died at Sea World this afternoon. Scientists do not yet know his exact...
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Category: florida
Hope was reportedly on his way to Zihuatanejo, Mexico to meet his old prison buddy, Red, when he was capturedA 350-lb bearded seal--named "Hope" by his cheese-ball human rescuers--has been taken into captivity off the coast of Florida, near Ft....
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Category: california
Are you talking to me? I said....Are you talking to me? Northern elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Sometime in late March, "Nibbles" --a 2,500 lb. elephant seal living on the Sonoma Coast in Northern California-- snapped. In the ensuing month, the...
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